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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
HELL'S KITCHEN.
A Couple of Moral Plague Spots in
New York

From Ne,o York Letter in Chicago Mdi.
The particular spot known as Hell's Kitchen
is group of tenement houses on the West side
OF New York, In the vicinity of Thirty ninth
street. The policemen in the night patrol in the
middle of the street Otherwise they would he
killed by bricks and rocks that are cast at them
from the housetops. Something like 900 arrests
were made in HeI's Kitchen last year and ordi-
nary nights, scuffies, wife beatings and inhuman
treatment of children are obliged 10 pass I'M
noticed. About 900 squalid. wretched ill
dressed, dirty and repulsive men and women and
children are crowded into few tenements
there, and their only ambition APP
parently is to kill a policeman on the beat and
take an occasional drubbing out of each other.
~ Dung thieves are trained in a most artistic
manner, and If petty criminal can only get
away from the police and secrete himself some
where in the kitchen, il is the labor of a life
time TO find him. There are a lot of queer old
rookeries in some Of the yards of the tenements,
and some OF these are furnished with all sorts
or underground passages and queer dives and
ferret holes Sebastopol is a block off from
Hells Kitchen. went there once with a police
sergeant and some friends from Cincinnati
They went to see what the squalor of New York
life really was. My purpose originally was to
visit the place late at night, but the police would
not hear of that, so we went around between
and O'Clock in the evening. The door of the
first tenement we came TO was black with peo-
pie. Half-naked children lay sprawlng on
the sidewalk slatternly and repul::
the windows, and men who were only partially
dressed lounged about the Railways and on the
steps. Droves of dissolute and dirty-looking
girls and women were gossiping in the halls,
and three brawny workmen who had Just come
in from the gasworks diffused the odor of that
useful illuminating agent throughout the place.
The variety of odOrs was something appalling
and the intensity sickenlng. The inmates stared
at us first and then began to groan, yell and
howl like so many derisive maniacs One police
man had been killed and three badly wounded
on the beat during the month. Many of the
tenements in New York are inhabited by people
who though just as poor as the inmates of Hell's
Kitchen. Sebastopol and Rattle Row, are never
theless clearly and decent in the matter of at
tire and personal surroundings. But in these
ceSspools of vice and wickedness there is not a
single feature that elevates the inmates above
the level of the brute creation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
Postal Service Irregularities.

The MORNING NEWS has received great
many complaints within the last few weeks
relative to the mail service in this State
and in Florida and South Carolina. As far
as can be ascertained the post office route
agents are responsible for the delays and
other irregularities of which complaints are
made. The attention of Superintendent
Turner has been called to these irregularities,
but thus far they have not been corrected.
Heavy mails and fast trains require strong
active and intelligent men to discharge the
duties of route agents satisfactorily.
A correspondent of the Jacksonville Times
Union, in communication to that paper
offers an explanation of the irregularities,
which may be the correct one. He says:
1.-THE following lines have clerks on them
who cannot meet the requirements of
the civil service rules, viz: Waycross
and Chattahoochee r. p o. has a
aid of crutch. He was thus crippled
when he entered the service. To say moth
ing of the law, it is evident that he cannot
properly discharge his duty on that line.
But he retains his position because of his po-
litical influence, and contributes (unavoida-
bly,, think,) his part to the decentralization
of the mail service. On the Wilmington
who is physically disabled, because one of
his hands is almost fingerless From per
sonal observation of him | know that he
cannot handle the mails, pick up the letters,
etc, as quickly as it should be done on the
fast MALL
About everybody is interested in the
mails, and the mail service should, there
fore, be about as perfect as it is possible to
make it. The delay of a day, or even of q
few hours, of large newspaper mail causes
annoyance to great many people. While
no one would willingly deprive a route
agent who is doing the best he can to meet
the requirements of his position, yet it is
evident that the public cannot be expected
to quietly submit to irregularities in the
mails in order that an incompetent agent
may retain his position. If Congressmer
are responsible for the appointment OF
agents of this kind the fact ought
TO be made known at once. They
will find that it is much
more to their interest to serve the public
than personal friends If they have friends
whom they want the government to provide
places for, such places as they can fill ac
ceptably should be secured for them. 1t is lit
tie less than an outrage on the public to put
incompetent men into positions where their
incompetoncy daily causes annoyance to
thousands of people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
ANNUAL SPECIAL EDITION
OF THE
Savannah Morning News
AND THE
Savannah Weekly News,
TO Be
ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER Sd. 1857.

The Annual Special Edition of the DAILY
and WEEKLY NEWS will be issued Sept 8. 1t
Will contain a complete and comprehensive
review of the trade of the city for the past year
and will show the progress the city has made in
everything that helps 20 make up its wealth and
that contributes TO its prosperity.
The facts relating to cotton, naval stores and
the different branches of the city's wholesale
trade will be so presented as to give clear idea
ofthe city's business for the year ending Sept. l.
better investment than by buying copies of the
Mot,EISe News Annual Special Edition and
sending them to their friends and correspon.
dents. newspaper like this Special Edition.
containing an accurate account of the business
of this city, is the best advertisement of the
energy and activity of the people Of Savannah.
Every citizen, whether he is a capitalist, mer-
chant, manufacturer mechanic or man of leis-
ure, should feel pride in the progress the city
is making, and in presenting to the world the
inducements which it offers to those who are
seeking homes in the South.
This Special Edition win be sent to all sub
scribers of the DAILY and WEEKLY News and a
large number of extra copies viii be mailed,
thoroughly covering the territory tributary to
Savannah
Advertisers will find this Special Edition of
great value, and space in its columns can be OBJ
tanned upon application 70 the Business Office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
AMERICAN RAILROAD SPEED.
Fewer Accidents, But Less Speed
Than the English Railways.
Ffona the london Standard.

From the London Standard,
There is an impression on this side of the At
lantic that railway accidents in America are
mainly due to the craze for swift travel which
characterizes our cousins in the New
World. In reality the American trains travel
as 6 rule much more slowly than ours and
with less average of casualties than is yearly
put at the doors of the English railway com
panies. For instance, the express trains between
New York and Albany average only twenty
eight and two-eighths miles per hour, though the
track is almost level, while the Flying Scotch
man" averages fifty miles over a considerable
part of the distance between London and Edin-
burgh. Between New York and Boston the
speed is rarely over uhirty-two and two-thrds
miles an hour, though the course is much easier
than that between London and Manchester
which is sometimes traveTsed at the rate of
forty-seven and three fifths miles an hour This
speed is, indeed, only attained by one America n
line-what may be called the Limited Mail, -
between New York and Chicago, which charges
a heavy extra fare for the accommodation af-
forded. Taking them all round, the best Eng
fish trains exceed those of America fully 25 per
cent in speed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
The Thomas Water Resolution.

The City Council made a mistake on
Wednesday night when it refused to con-
slider Alderman Thomas resolution relative
to the scant water supply. There have been
very general and very bitter complaints
concerning this matter, and the public has
right to know from an authoritative
source whether their complaints are we'll
founded or not No one ought to be blamed
if the charging of the capacity
of the pumps at this time was a ne
ceSsity, or If, all things considered, it was
better to make the Improvement now than
later in the season, but there is an impress
sion apparently that the improvement was
begun without full understanding of all
the possible consequences attendant upon
scant water supply at this season of the
year. There is a belief also that longer
time is being occupied in making the inn
provement than is actually necessary.
Whether this belief and this impression
are correct we are not able to say. If they
are not correct, the Thomas resolution gave
the Council chance TO say SO, and if they
are correct, and there is blame anywhere,
an investigation would have placed it where
1t belongs.
We have not criticised the authorities for
their course in connection with the improve
ment at the water works because, from
what has appeared in print, it seemed as if
they were doing what was best for
the public good, but the re-
fusal to entertain the Thomas
resolution was calculated to create a sus
picion that an investigation was to be
avoided rather than courted 1t is true
that in a very few days now, if everything
turns out as expected, the city will have an
ample supply of water, but would it not be
wise for the Council to make thorough in
quiry into all the circumstances connected
with the reduction of the water supply for
the purpose of showing, if possible, that
REINFORCEMENT at the water works is being
made within the shortest possible time and
that it was delayed as long as it was safe to
do so! Mr.. Thomas doubtless believed that
satisfactory explanation relative to the
matters referred to in his resolution could
be made, and he recognized that the public
was entitled to an explanation of some sort.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
Too Fly.
From, the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Say! lemme use your telephone minitr' he
exclaimed, as he rushed into an office on Girls
void street
Certainly"
Hello! hello! Give me 02o5 Is that you,
darlingT'
C'Yes.'0
Say, pet I left my wallet on the dresser with
$3.50 in it. Did you find it,"
Good! 'Fraid I'd lost it on the street Big
load off my mind. Shall bring up those
shoeSy"
c'Yes'O
I'm dead broke, you know, but perhaps can
borrow S. until after dinner, SO as not to disap-
point you. Goodbye, darling"
c"Goodbye sweetness
Say he said to the man at the desk, per
haps you overheard what said, and will lend
me the S5S"
The occupant pointed over his shoulder to the
door.
What? Skip"
YES"
"Too old?"
Yes" tHI
"Been caught before?"
Eyes"
81 skip! Good-byer"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

II seems that there were giants in the
neighborhood of Cincinnati ages ago In
excavating for n sewer in that city few
days ago "A section Of human vertebrp, in a
petriiled state, was discovered. IL was of
such dimensions as TO indicate that il be-
longed to a race of giants at least nine feet
high. OF course scientists are puzzled, but
the finding of the vertebre is not re-
garded as indicating that John Sherman's
boom for the Presidency has any extraordi-
nary amount of backbone
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
Col. Watterson and the Three Ricf
New Workers..
Erom "a Collrfer Journni.

FROM the Courier journal.
New York, Aug. IL. Your smart at
torneys In Congress and In the lobby, your
learned lackeys in the press. cannot forever
mines and mills with the chaff about the pro
lection of home industry and the American
workman Soon or late this American work
man will learn for himself the way you cheat
and pluck him; and woe be to you when he does
find out how he has been used by the tariff
Woe"
'W-o-oh!'' cried my trio with one voice Cut
II. and let's 60 and take something"
And this is the way the rich men Of the East
dispose of all troublesome questions of internal
economy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
INDEY TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

SPECIAL NoTIcEs-To the Patrons Of the Bur
glar Alarm Company; Coats, Vests and Pants,
at Jaudon's: Notice. Smith & Berry.
AUCTION SALE-Trade Sale of Groceries, by
D. R. Kennedy.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvBRTIsEMESTs-HelpW Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Personal; Miscellaneous.
STEAMSHIP ScHEDULEs-Ocea Steamship Co. !;
Baltimore Steamship Co.
PIASos-Davis Bros. Best Tuned Pianos.
EDUCATIONAL College, Newberry,
S. C.
DIRECT IMPORTATION OF PIAsos-Schrener' s
Music House.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
A High Tribute.
From Tea,ns Siftiitns

Texas gentleman travelling in Pullman
palace cor in Pennsylvania happened to say that
he was from the Lone Star State.
"Do you live In the western portion of the
StateY" asked a man opposite.
Il do"
In Tom Green county,"
That's my county"
Live near Carsong''
That's my town"
Perhaps you know my brother William Henry
JonesT'
Know him? Gimme your hand, stranger.
helped hang William Henry the night before /
left He was a horse thief, but q good oneN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

The World is authority for the statement
that Mr. Chauncey NJ. Depew has become a
pronounced Presidential candidate since his
return from Europe. Perhaps he had a
talk with Blaine while abroad. It is claimed
that he could get every Republican vote
IN Now York, and would be certain
Of the votes Of the 1900 employees of the
New York Central railroad. The Republi-
cans might stand better chr nee with Dcpew
than with Binine.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
The Moral of sharp's Life.

From the Denver Republican rep.
1t is for him race between death and the i'm
print of dishonor. It is a question as to whether
he shall live long enough TO wear the felon s
garb and have his name entered among tire list
of felons, or whether death shall come in time
to save him, his name and his descendants from
this disgrace. The career of Jake Sharp is full
Of warning TO men who might be inclined to
follow In the path he pursued.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Mrs, Hendricks, widow OF the late Vice
President, has quieted the apprehension of
a number of prominent men, who wrote
quite freely their views of men and current
events to Mr.. Hendricks, by the statement
that all such letters were destroyed by Mr..
Hendricks There is no occasion, therefore,
for any of the writers of them to feel the
least alarm. The letters which Mrs. Hen
bricks proposes to put into PRINT will be en-
tirely harmless and, it may be, wholly un-
interesting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
A Case Of Wearing Apparel.
From, the Wr1shington Critic

passenger about TO leave a steamer and
pass muster of the custom house officers, was
asked what he had in his satchel
Nothing but clothes" said he. Look for
yourself"
The Inspector examined his valise, and found
a bottle wrapped up in some OF bis wearing APP
parel.
~ thought you said you only had clothes in
your satchel, said the Inspector.
$50 have"
What's in this bottle, them"
"Nightcaps."
t'paSS -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Ex-Congressman Albert Willis, of Ken
lucky, gives a new explanation of the re-
duced Democratic majority in the late
election in that State. He says that the
young men, who did not participate in the
war of secession, are tired of the soldier
business. They want to get a chance at the
Offices themselves, and object TO making up
any ticket from the ex-soldier element.
After few more explanations of the re-
duced majority it will be generally doubted
whether the Democratic leaders of Ken
lucky know anything about the matter
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Merchants all over the country are look
ing for good trade thisfall, and the indica-
lions are that they will not be mistaken. The
orders received by merchants in the large
cities already exceed anything known in re-
cent years at this season. In this city bust
ness has been unusually good for the sum-
mer season, and the outlook for the fall
trade Is excellent
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

The young Wall street financier, Ives,
pretends that he doesn't know where his
books are. If he were put into Jail, with
the understanding that he should stay there
until the books were Forthcoming, it is prob
atre that they would be found mighty
quick. Ives creditors make great mistake
in dealing gently with him
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

1t is now limited that when Sam Jones
said in Baltimore a few nights ago that he
could get along with an old sinner or
drunken sot, but couldn't stand mean
Christian, he had reference to certain gentle
men who We're asked TO contribute some
thing towards paying him $50 night, and
refused. Jones must be careful not TO let
a desire for gold destroy his usefulness as
preacher.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

1t is said that Col. Switzler, the chief of
the Bureau of Statistics, is in trouble He
evaded the civil service regulations and
then boosted of the matter. Before he gets
through with the Civil Service Commission
he will have impressed upon his mind that
silence is golden,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

General Master Workman Powderly
wants it distinctly understood that he is not
the leader Of the new American party. He
says that be has no wish TO see the torna-
hawk and scalping knife flourish again in
this country. 1t is probable that Mr. Pow
Derby has as much to do as he can attend TO
in looking after the knights of Labor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Admiral Franklin, who is about to be put
on the retired list, has been in active service
forty-six years, continuously. He has always
acquitted himself like a brave man and a
gallant officer, and he will carry with him
in his retirement the respect of the entir
country
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Queen Victoria now knows where Chicago
is, but it is doubtful if she have any idea of
the location of St Louis. It is rather
funny that st. Louis should have the mis-
fortune TO be overlooked so often. But she
may grow and finally get to be as big as her
bridge
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

The MORNING NEWS win begin next
Sunday the publication of a very interest
ing story by Miss S. Lucy Joyner, of North
Carolina, entitled Give Old Letters" The
story is a comparatively short one, but it
will be well worth reading.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

The Boston Globe says that the coin in the
Treasury represents the earnings of 1,O0O,-
600 for one year. The best thing tc do with
regard to it is to put it into circulation as
quickly as possible. This surplus problem
appears TO be too difficult for the average
statesman to solve,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
A Strong Argument.

From the Quincy (Iil.) Herald DENY
The ever-increasing surplus the terror of the
business men of the country, has made more
the free traderS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

construct a genealogical tree of the Presi-
dents family. She may run across some
branches of it which may not command her
unbounded admiration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
Yes, Rather Queer.


From the Ne,o York sun CDent)
The latest paradox: The United Labor party
reject their Socialist delegates for belonging to
another party, and Mr.. John McMackin, the
Chairman, asks a Republican Police Commits
sioner 10 appoint the United Labor inspectors
OF elections. Queer
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

DR. McGlynn says that the campaign of
the United Labor party in New York will
be a vigorous one. He is probably right.
From the present outlook the Socialists in
tend to give the McGiynn and George party
a chance to have just as lively a campaign
as il is possible TO have
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

The Iowa Republicans still pretend to
think that the negroes are denied the right
of free ballot in the South. They ought to
send committee to the South to get at the
truth of this matter-that is, if they want
the truth. The probabilities are, however,
that the truth is the very thing they don't
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Prince Ferdinand and little Bulgaria may
not be able to do much fighting, but they
can do good deal toward arraying against
each other nations which are prepared to
do good deal Of fighting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Gov. J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky,
talks of becoming a journalist. Probably
Bin Nye's success has led him to believe that
fortune and fame await him in newspaper
work. His Duluth speech would doubtless
secure him pretty good pay as a humorist.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

oLp GENrLrMAN-My! what nice little hoy
you are. aren't your
Small liOy-No, ! amt no nice little boy
neither; I'm Dutch Sckels, der terror. and can
HEX anybody Idy size around here.-- Life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

Louisiana's baby" bonds are selling at n
baby price. II the factions of the Demo
cratic party in that State keepon wrangling
there win be some difficulty in giving the
bonds away in the course Of year or two.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

For sour stomach or heartburn, nothing so
good rs a dose of Fred Browns Jamaica Ginger.
Get the conuine. Philadelphia, 1872.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26

The Thistle's big topmast astonishes "old
Sailors II shewins the Americas cup she
win hn entitled 10 have tho "big hend -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-26
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Way to Abolish Poverty.

From the Neto York Tribune CRep)
Voting will not abolish poverty, however
That will only be done when every one spends
less than he makes